Last month, something happened at the federal Department of Ed, and I wanted to give it some attention here because it is not good. First a little background – You may know or remember from an earlier post that Candice Jackson is currently the head of the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights, despite having no…
It’s been a busy week, so I just wanted to quickly revisit something form my “to read” list – A research summary about the benefits of racial and socio-economic integration that came out last March from the National Coalition on School Diversity. If you’re looking for a good, short (10 pgs) summary of the research…
Cross-posted at Integratedschools.org Lots of major and under-the-radar school (de)segregation news already this month, so this roundup is organized by sub-topics to hopefully make it easier to find what you’re looking for, including as many links as I could find regarding the NYC school integration diversity plan. School Resegregation: Alabama – This blog post from…
Ansley T. Erickson’s “Making the Unequal Metropolis” traces racial inequity in Nashville schools before, during and after court ordered desegregation. It’s a remarkably thorough and well-researched account of over 50 years of policy history. There are several great reviews/interviews/videos out there already (see links below), so I thought I’d try to take my comments in…
Today being the 63rd anniversary of Brown, I decided to go back and read the full court decision, which is short and very readable. A lot of this may be familiar to readers, but wanted to start with some background for those who don’t work on this issue on a regular basis. Anyway, here’s the…
A judge that allows segregation? White liberals choosing against integration? Segregation orders from a school principal? It’s all in the late April news roundup. Here’s the links and summaries to the best/most relevant I could find: Legal Segregation in Jefferson County, Alabama As noted in an earlier post, “splintering” is a popular current vehicle for…
This roundup covers the most relevant/useful stuff that I could find from the first half of April. There was a lot of media coverage of school segregation as well as several new studies of housing segregation. I’ve mainly just tried to organize the links here. Will do longer summaries in subsequent posts. To the links!…
Released last week, a policy brief from the Education Research Alliance looks at the effect of charter expansion on school segregation in New Orleans. Strangely, the brief uses peripheral findings to sort of dilute its central finding: overall, segregation by race increased. And, the authors note that even those more positive findings (i.e., places where…
A recent report from the Century Foundation is one of the most comprehensive sources I’ve found on the relationship between vouchers and school segregation. I have concerns about its conclusion, but overall recommend it as a useful resource in the voucher/segregation debate. Partly a literature review, its most significant contribution is in re-analyzing well-known voucher…
There’s been a lot of (de)segregation news/media coverage in the last few weeks. This post briefly summarizes and links to the best stories I could find. A few of these – especially the Century Foundation report and the Baltimore Sun series – will be topics for discussion in subsequent posts. Close readers of the blog…
School Diversity Notebook 